Cutting Corners

I knew that the corners were bad, but the full extent of the rust can only be seen when the inner panels have been cut off... 

It's actually a bit better than it looks because some of that is just surface rust and can be treated, but we will be replacing those bits with metal instead of "just air" which leaks when it rains

More panels are on route from P A Blanchard as I post this and we plan to get back to this next week 

Horror on the screen

OK, it's the bulkhead corners that are the horror (more later), but getting the screen out was no small adventure as it took much of the day to extract recalcitrant rusted screws and bolts out and to work trough finding all the small hidden ones that were still stopping things and then cutting through the seal on the 30 year old windscreen to bulkhead seal so that every thing would come out. 

This was the final result 

And then to truly explore the horror that needs to be sorted out here are some close ups of the bulkhead corners 

So tomorrow I will be returning to the scene of the horror and getting as much of the dash out as I can so that Steve the welder can do his magic

Wings waiting

After a strip down, some reshaping, prime and repainting the wings are waiting for the welding and then to go back on again